SMB Guide to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

I wrote a number of blogs over the last couple of months on the topic of business continuity and disaster recovery. In case you missed some of them, I have compiled the various articles relating to these two important topics below.

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Disaster Recovery

What better way to get started off on the topic of disaster recovery than to be reminded of the repercussions of not having proper backups. In Fannie Mae Case Is a Reminder Not to Take Data Backup Lightly, a disgruntled developer who was fired decided to append additional instructions into a daily script. Timed to execute some months later, it would have deleted - and then scrubbed - the data from some 4,000 servers.

At the end of the day, even the most cost-effective backup medium costs money. In Set Limits to Your Corporate Mailbox, I bring your attention to the corporate mailbox, which - if improperly maintained - can be a culprit contributing to exorbitant costs as storage requirements balloon.